Mary Weems is a poet, playwright, performer, social foundations scholar, and educational consultant. She has published three other collections of poetry: Blackeyed (Burning Press, 1994) White (Wick Chapbook, Kent State University Press, 1997) and Fembles (Heartlands Today, 1996). Weems has also published a multi-genre educational text Public Education and the Imagination-Intellect: I Speak from the Wound in my Mouth (Peter Lang, 2003), and Poetry Power! a book/workbook introducing middle school students to the art of poetry (Silvermoon Press, 2003).
Poems in this chapbook first appeared in Calyx, Mirror of the Arts, Moondance, Obsidian III: Black Literature in Review, Pavement Saw, Reed Magazine, Woman Made Gallery's Her Mark 2002 Calendar, Xcp: Cross Cultural Poetics.
